Milena Belloni is an ethnographer specialized in migration and refugee studies. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Italy, Belgium and Holland. Her research mainly concerns refugees’ migration dynamics and inclusion pathways, transnational families, migrant smuggling, protracted displacement in Europe and in the Global South, home and housing studies, and ethnographic methods. Her monographic study on the migration of Eritreans to Europe, The Big Gamble, is published by the University of California Press (2019).